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#579 Valerie Hardcastle: The Self, Consciousness, Pain, and Abnormal Psychology

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What Is Consciousness?

A lot of people think consciousness is really cool, and it's a fundamental aspect of who i am. I can lose an arm, i can lose a leg, i'm not interested in losing my consciousness. If we want to understand it, we need to chip around the edges. We're not going to get to the essence of it at the very beginning. Once we take that step, we find really interesting things. People don't have a sense of movement even if their body's actually moving. So what does that tell me? It tells me that maybe consciousness is al together with the self,. again, kind of project our understanding out into the world.

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